I did it!

I can't believe it but I beat my time from yesterday's run! I went running today again. I started from my house, and ran to my gym which is about 1 mile. Used the bathroom, left and kept on running. When I got home, I looked at my pedometer, and I realized that I had ran a total of 4 miles and I did it in about the same time that it took me to run 3 miles yesterday! I can't believe that I did that! It's an amazing feeling! 4 miles seems SO long though and feels like it takes forever to run that far. You all have probably noticed that one of my goals is to run a half marathon. I think that's an awesome goal, and I really want to accomplish that one. I'm feeling frustrated though. If 4 miles feels like it takes forever to run, how in the world am I going to run 13.5 miles?! I know that I can do it though. I just need to keep on training my body, and I know that eventually I'll one day be able to run that far. I think I should give myself a break. I've come a long way from where I started when I started Weight Watchers. I remember what it was like that very first time I "ran" around a track. I could barely walk and I didn't even finish walking once around that track. My legs hurt so bad that I had to hobble back to my car. When I got home I cried on my husband's shoulder because I was in so much pain from "working out" and from being frustrated from not being able to exercise the way I thought I'd be able to. I remember thinking that I didn't think I was actually in that bad of shape. Boy was I wrong! I needed that wake up call to snap me into reality! Something that has changed my way of thinking also is that I sometimes ask myself if, god forbid, that if something horrible would happen to my family or someone I loved, and I needed to save them, would I have been able to save them when I was at my heaviest weight? I really don't think I had the physical strength or stamina when I was at my heaviest weight to be able to save someone. I would have not had the strength or endurance to be able to save someone. How horrible would that have been if I had to save someone, and I just couldn't because I was too fat?! I think that's a good question that we all should ask ourselves. It's something to think about.

So, I took a couple pictures of my pedometer today after I came back from my run. Check these pics out! I'm proud of them!








The next time I go out running, I want to try to beat 4 miles. I hope I can do it.

No, I KNOW I can do it!